Transform Your Data Strategy with the Denodo Platform and Snowflake
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In today’s fast-paced, data-driven world, organizations are always looking for new ways to make the most of their data while keeping it accessible, secure, and cost-effective. That’s where combining a logical data abstraction layer with Snowflake’s powerful data capabilities comes in. The Denodo Platform, when paired with Snowflake, offers unmatched data self-service and speeds up time-to-value.

Why Adding the Denodo Platform Makes Sense

Many enterprises, especially those with operations spread across different regions, or those with extensive legacy systems, face big challenges when trying to migrate all their data to cloud platforms such as Snowflake. These migrations can take many years, with some parts of the business still running on older systems for a long time. 

Even when the goal is to move all data into the cloud, data often continues to be spread across a variety of places, including on-premises systems, cloud systems, databases housed in different regions, and SaaS applications like Salesforce. This makes it tough to fully consolidate data into a single system like Snowflake. A good data strategy needs to include access to a variety of data sources across the whole enterprise, not just the data within a single platform.

The Denodo Platform solves this by providing a unified data access layer that hides the complexity of the underlying physical data infrastructure. This makes phased migrations smoother and reduces disruptions to business operations. Together, Denodo and Snowflake offer a flexible, self-service, and subscription-based model. This synergy enables quick deployment and scaling, so enterprises can maintain business continuity while modernizing their data infrastructures and aligning with company-wide data strategies.

Six Benefits of Adding the Denodo Platform to Your Snowflake Strategy

  1. Access and Manage All Your Data from a Single Place: Denodo gives you a single point of access to all your data, no matter the format or location, with over 200 connectors to different data sources, including Snowflake, SAP, Excel, S3, and Salesforce. This simplifies the data landscape for business users and provides seamless data management. By consolidating access, the Denodo Platform solves the problem of scattered data across different systems and ensures that the data used is as current and accurate as possible.
  2. Unleash the Full Potential of GenAI Applications: Denodo offers a reliable data foundation for generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) applications by providing a unified, secure access point for querying all enterprise data. Its rich semantic layer adds business context and knowledge to foundational models, improving response accuracy and supporting enterprise-level initiatives.
  3. Accelerate Your Queries and Reduce Costs: The Denodo Platform’s Smart Query Acceleration speeds up query execution by up to 10 times and cuts query costs by up to three times. This enables efficient, cost-effective data retrieval for timely responses, regardless of the data’s complexity and volume.
  4. Add Policy-Based Access Control to Any Dataset: The Denodo Platform lets you define access control policies based on tags and attributes for any dataset, for strong security and compliance. It supports role-based and attribute-based access controls, data masking, redaction, obfuscation, and encryption, so information is accessible only to authorized individuals and consistent across systems and access methods.
  5. Improve Observability: The Denodo Platform enables comprehensive visibility and control over data, including a view into the full lineage of every dataset, and the ability to monitor data usage and traffic. FinOps metrics help pinpoint details on individual users, roles, and queries, while a full audit trail provides transparency and accountability. This is crucial for meeting new regulations related to AI usage and understanding the algorithms and data used.
  6. Future-Proof Your Data Landscape: By separating data access from the underlying data source, the Denodo Platform enables IT departments to move data based on changing business needs, cost considerations, and new technologies, without disrupting data consumers. The Denodo Platform continues to add value over time by enabling organizations to quickly adapt to new requirements and innovations while maintaining uninterrupted data access and usage.

To dive deeper into how Denodo and Snowflake can transform your data strategy, we encourage you to explore our detailed whitepaper, “Modern Data Strategy: Denodo and Snowflake.” This comprehensive resource will provide you with an in-depth understanding of how integrating Denodo with Snowflake can benefit your organization. Download it now here to discover the advantages of leveraging these technologies together.

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